When I have discovered the illustrated guides by Joana Avillez for Refinery29 I’ve gone crazy and I’ve decided; I must share them.

Joana Avillez has a thin
stroke that grabs at essential aspects of her subjects. Considering also a
clear liking for fashion in its more eye-catching and weird sides, the result
is in front of you.

After The
Idiosyncratic Fashionistas - volume centred around Jean and Valerie, two
eccentric New Yorker ladies-fashion addicted (as you can watch in their blog) -
Joana has been contacted by Refinery29 to portray before the
greatest contemporary fashion icons, then the élite of fashion editors.

There are all: in the first tranche Anna Piaggi and Diane Pernet, Anna Dello
Russo and Bill Cunningham by way
of Susie Bubble and Tavi Gavinson; in the second Anna Wintour, Suzy Menkes, Carine Roitfeld
and the editors who are protagonists of the street style shoots during the
fashion weeks like Kate Lanphear, Julia Sarr-Jamois or Giovanna Battaglia.

In short, these guides are a kind of ironic Who’s Who about fashion, illustrated
with plates that match drawings with informations about the figure, slight
manias and epoch-making aphorisms like: “Sometimes
I feel ridiculous, but it’s in a good way” (AdR), “There is no new black. There is only black” (D. Pernet) or “Always wear high-heels….They give you power”
(C. Roitfeld).

If among these names there also is your model
(incidentally which is?) or you are attracted to some of these illustrations,
it seems that Refinery29 wants to
produce some t-shirts.In my opinion paper dolls with an appropriate
wardrobe should be great too. At least a paper-wardrobe would take up less
space than an AdR’s apartment/closet